Tcl/tk dll's

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 23:51 +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
> curiosity, any reason why the tcl/tk  dll's are
> not using the cyg prefix ?

In fact, there is.  The point of the "cyg" prefix is to avoid possible
mismatches with MinGW DLLs using the "lib" prefix.  In this case,
however, forcing a "cyg" prefix with Tcl's unique build system would be
a lot of work for no gain, since Tcl already has its own way of
distinguishing between the two (tclXY.dll vs. libtclX.Y.dll).  Note that
python and R (in Ports) do the same thing for the same reason.

For the record, I did patch Tcl to also recognize the "cyg" prefix for
those extensions which are built with other build systems.


Yaakov



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